We are hanging around, resting from standing in the cold for 2
hours, and this woman walks from this little area into the aisles
of the store and starts shopping for stuff.

My cousin points out that there's a baby in the carrier and no
one's is watching him or her. We decided to see how long the
parent would take to come back. 20 minutes. This woman left her
infant unattended for 20 minutes in a Best Buy on their busiest
and most chaotic day.

Someone could have easily taken the infant out from the carrier
and walked out of the store, and she would not have known until
she looked in the carrier.

Commenters shared other stories from Black Friday of kids
left to fend for themselves as their parents went off to hunt for
bargains.

Around 1 A.M. my boss was walking through the parking lot to our
store in the mall and witnessed a child no older than 2 years
"hanging out of a car".

Here's how it was described to me. The parents had left this kid
in their rental car apparently with the doors unlocked. The kid
tried to open the door but his foot became stuck in a bag (most
likely a shopping bag). So he's got his feet inside the car and
is hanging on to the handle of the open car door and if he lets
go he will fall face first onto the asphalt. So the poor guy's
just stuck there, screaming.

My boss calls the police, of course, and once they'd contacted
the rental company to track the parents down, the police
basically told them that they could either leave the mall
immediately or get arrested.